Karl Rove: Pelosi sounds like the “Mad Red Queen”

posted at 11:36 am on June 21, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Heh. Just to follow up on yesterday’s post, Karl Rove of course had a response for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s quip that “I could’ve arrested Karl Rove on any given day.” Actually, Rep. Pelosi, we live in the United States of America, and here, most of us are pretty big fans of this thing called the rule of law:

“The only way I could have been arrested is if the House adopted the resolution, which it did not,” the Republican operative and former adviser to President George W. Bush told Fox News on Wednesday night.

“So, it’s nice to know that Speaker Pelosi wanted to have me arrested. It’s nice to know that she thinks she had the power to but we’re still a nation of laws and she has no authority to do so and had she attempted to arrest on any of the number times that I was in and out of the Capitol, without a resolution passed by the entire House of Representatives she would have been up the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.”

“You know, she sounds a little bit like Inspector Clouseau and a little bit about the Mad Red Queen, but Speaker Pelosi was dead wrong in her assertion today and I’m sure she had a good laugh and it’s nice to know that she dreams of slapping me in her own personal jail. But she didn’t have any authority to do it,” Rove said.

A House committee did vote to hold Rove in contempt in 2008 for not responding to subpoenas concerning the firings of U.S. attorneys, but the vote never reached the full House floor. Sorry, Pelosi, but you don’t have the power to go around arresting people just because it feels good — although, apparently, she was much too high-minded and beneficent to actually exercise her imagined authority. (And, I might point out, unlike in Operation Fast & Furious, nobody died in Karl Rove’s case.)

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That’s what happens with these narcissistic power-hungry pols. They believe themselves to have ultimate power. I’m sure if anyone was to sit down and talk with Pelosi about all the things she could and could not do as Speaker, the nonsense coming from her mouth would boggle the mind.

The democrats would throw us all into “re-education camps” if they could get away with it.

Actually Congress has more authority to throw an Eric Holder in jail than they would a Karl Rove. Rove didn’t hold a Constitutional office. He wasn’t a cabinet head. He wasn’t CONFIRMED by the Senate. His job didn’t involve functions that had Congressional oversight.

If Stretch Pelosi could have put Rove in jail, then that means Boehner can have Valerie Jarret arrested too.

Thing is, if you saw Pelosi coming at you with that strange permagrin on her face you might just agree to be arrested in order to put steel bars between you and her. If you remember the robots from “A Boy And His Dog” then you know what I mean.

Pelosi, we live in the United States of America, and here, most of us are pretty big fans of this thing called the rule of law

The Democrats today aren’t big on the law. The Constitution, Ginsburg doesn’t like it much. Immigrants, legal or illegal, all the same to them. Obama likes to quote the Bible, like of “the least of them”, to justify doing whatever he likes. He’s not big on: “It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid”.

That’s what happens with these narcissistic power-hungry pols. They believe themselves to have ultimate power. I’m sure if anyone was to sit down and talk with Pelosi about all the things she could and could not do as Speaker, the nonsense coming from her mouth would boggle the mind.

Not a bad idea. How about it, Hot Gas? Go get her and sit her down for a nice long chat. After all, she’s the one who claims to “know the Constitution,” and is confident the Supreme Court will rule in favor of her most egregious power grab.

That’s what happens with these narcissistic power-hungry pols. They believe themselves to have ultimate power. I’m sure if anyone was to sit down and talk with Pelosi about all the things she could and could not do as Speaker, the nonsense coming from her mouth would boggle the mind.

ButterflyDragon on June 21, 2012 at 11:41 AM

It’s not just pols, it’s pretty much everyone in government. Angela Corey, the inept prosecutor of George Zimmerman tried to have Alan Dershowitz silenced or fired for critiquing her legally flawed charging brief.

Those in government believe that we serve them, not the other way around.

Rove made the comparison this morning on Fox to Pelosi and Barney Fife. and to be honest, if you Photoshop a deputy’s uniform and hat on Nancy, there is a bit of a Don Knotts facial resemblance there….

That’s a cute response by Rove. That whole Pelosi statement was odd (surprising, I know), and seems like it could have implications she probably didn’t intend. Is she tacitly agreeing that Holder’s behavior has been criminal (kind of a tu quoque type accusation), or is she claiming to have knowingly allowed Rove’s alleged criminal behavior to continue with impunity? Neither interpretation really casts her statement in a very good light.

It’s not just pols, it’s pretty much everyone in government. Angela Corey, the inept prosecutor of George Zimmerman tried to have Alan Dershowitz silenced or fired for critiquing her legally flawed charging brief.

wildcat72 on June 21, 2012 at 11:48 AM

Angela Corey went Mike Nifong on the Trayvon Martin case. Rule of law didn’t matter, charges were an inevitable conclusion from the minute it was known that she didn’t need a grand jury to make the decision.

The insane radical libs tortured the Bush administration at every chance. The judges served at the pleasure of Bush! New Presidents have fired them ALL. I believe Nan is criminally insane, and is now trying everything she can to stifle fundraising for Mitt; this time by discrediting and an implied threat to potential donors. Pelosi is EVERYTHING that is wrong with this country and the poster child for term limits. Radical nuts and misfits have taken over the Democrat party. November friends – November.

Thing is, if you saw Pelosi coming at you with that strange permagrin on her face you might just agree to be arrested in order to put steel bars between you and her. If you remember the robots from “A Boy And His Dog” then you know what I mean.

Bishop on June 21, 2012 at 11:46 AM

Hence the bumper sticker seen down here in Southern California. It has a picture of Nancy Pelosi wearing the Wicked witch’s hat and it says… “Where is Dorothy and that damned house of her’s?”

Someone should mention one word that makes all the difference. MURDER.
A federal agent was MURDERED while on duty. Just like if a cop had been shot during a traffic stop.
This wasn’t a bureaucratic over reach. This was a MURDER.

Now, let’s talk about between 200 and 300 innocent men, women and children MURDERED by these guns in Mexico. President Munchausen helped arm a group attempting to overthrow a democracy. In international law, that can be considered an act of WAR.

If it wasn’t for the comic relief that she occasionally provides, one would be wondering when a Kansas farm house would be falling out of the sky and landing on her. “You have no power here…Begone! before someone drops a house on you too.”

Under this process, the procedure for holding a person in contempt involves only the chamber concerned. Following a contempt citation, the person cited for contempt is arrested by the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House or Senate, brought to the floor of the chamber, held to answer charges by the presiding officer, and then subject to punishment that the House may dictate (usually imprisonment for punishment reasons, imprisonment for coercive effect, or release from the contempt citation).

Look – I agree with Rove – but man oh man – today and tomorrow has nothing to do with him.

Fade into the background Mr. Rove, do you job quietly and effectively – but please – you are not a star.

jake-the-goose on June 21, 2012 at 11:59 AM

And when did he or anyone else say anything that could be interpreted that he’s a star or interested in becoming one…the man was asked a legit question on a network about some inanities spouted by the ex-speaker the day before…his answer was in fact quite factual and he showed that he has a good sense of humor too…nothing wriong with that….

So, I get to say what my husband just hates (and I get to say it much more often than I actually do, you understand)…told you so. Fox and Friends had the Doocy child do an investigation to try and find nancy’s personal jail. I found it and linked to it early in this string—and at least my link showed the pretty substantial bars. Doocy Jr’s didn’t. Grin.